Two emissaries from Gov. Bob Graham’s office met with local blacks to discuss the simmering controversy over a racial “hunting guide.”

An “inconclusive” hypnosis session with a potential witness brought the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department back to square one in its investigation of the Interstate 10 murder of Bert Eldon Gross.

20 years ago – 1996

Fort Walton Beach began preparing itself for the next wave of wireless technology called Personal Communication Services (PCS) by compiling a list of city-owned properties which could be used to locate new towers.

Roadside historical markers were posted on U.S. Highway 90 east and west of Milligan and on State Road 4 entering Milligan recognizing that it was once the county seat of Okaloosa County.

10 years ago – 2006

Florida’s First District Court of Appeals acted to remove what was believed to be the last major obstacle standing between the Okaloosa-Walton College Foundation and its sale of Mattie M. Kelly’s Destin estate.

Walton County officials and local conservationist M.C. Davis were set to relocate a colony of 50 gopher tortoises that lived near ongoing construction at the new county jail site to save them from destruction.

5 years ago – 2011

Not since March 1999 had there been a municipal election in Shalimar.

The local branch of the NAACP relocated to Green Acres Boulevard and invited friends and members to a grand opening. At the opening, Sabu Williams, president of the Okaloosa branch, recognized the organizations 102nd anniversary.

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